FMQ recap

The free motion quilting challenge has come to an end. I can say that I am proud to have kept up with the challenges and one bonus challenge. Thanks to SewCalGal for hosting this challenge and to all the tutors who put together the challenges. I learned a lot and some of my fear has gone in doing free motion quilting. I have also enjoyed seeing the other participants entries. They have inspired me too.

So here are my practice pieces for the year.

January's tutorial was presented by Frances Moore. This was a fun design to do but I had some problems getting stuck in places as you can see. I will have to learn to think ahead of time where I will go as I am quilting.

 Diane Gaudynski showed us how to do feathers in February. I really like how this turned out. I ended up making a good size throw pillow out of this piece for my son and DIL.

March brought fun loops and flowers by Ann Fahl.

In April Don Linn taught us how to transfer a pattern onto the fabric for quilting. I know I will use this technique again.

For May Leah Day showed us to do some different kind of stipple quilting to fill in spaces.

June introduced us to Cindy Needham showed us how to divide our piece into sections and fill in with free motion quilting. This piece shows the previous two tutorials along with my divide and conquer method of filling in the background.  Fun!

I had fun with the July challenge. Angela Walters showed us how to do tiles and fill in with swirls.

In August Wendy Sheppard showed us a design called Jester's hats. Oh! Boy! this one was so difficult for me. My brain had a hard time doing this design even though Wendy showed how simple it really was to make.

For September Paula Reid showed us how to quilt on lines. She provided this pattern for us. This is the first quilt I did using one of the challenges. It was a preemie quilt I donated to our local hospital.

In October, Teri Lucas challenged us to quilt our name and then fill in a six inch square with fun quilting designs. Teri showed us how to do the nautilus shell which I thought was fun to do.

There were also some bonus challenges during the year too. I did the one presented by Susan Brubaker Knapp. I had fun with this one.  Susan showed us how to let nature inspire us.

In November, Sarah Vedeler showed us how to do a swirly design that would be great for borders.

And last but not least, during December Patsy Thompson showed us how to do free motion borders with mirror image feathers.

I am going to pat myself on the back for doing all the challenges. Some months I wondered if I would be able to do them but I managed to keep up. I do appreciate all those machine quilters that shared their talents with us bloggers.

Next I will be going to my sewing room to decide which three UFOs I will be working on for January. I hope you will sew along with me and get some of your UFOs done for January too. You can read about the guidelines on this post.

With Passion,
Carrie P.